The Necromancer Who Was Despised - The Necromancer Who Was Despised chapter 174
“Does that mean we’re going outside too?”
Untinia asked, and I shook my head.
“No, I’m the only one going outside. I’ll join up with those who went ahead and do my best to stabilize the barren land as quickly as possible. But before that…”
I looked up for a moment and said,
“We need to make sure this place is safe. I have an idea.”
There was nothing for Untinia and Anelis to do in this process.
I just needed to let them know.
They were the parties involved, and especially Untinia, who held an important position.
I had personally formed ties with the interspecies alliance, and Untinia played a key role in my ties.
That’s why I was showing consideration, and at the same time, indirectly revealing my abilities and increasing my already high value, making it impossible for anyone to underestimate me.
“Well, setting that aside, the fact that I have a relationship with Elia is already worth considering.”
I became a mage who could transcend walls and make a dragon my commander, but even so, Yeriya was someone I wanted to draw in.
If she cooperated, it would be easier to make the dragon my commander, and even if that wasn’t the case, her power and status would be of great help to me.
Moreover, her goal didn’t hinder mine.
On the contrary, it was mutually beneficial, so drawing her in was unconditionally profitable.
Even the biggest obstacle, the contract with the Demon King, seemed resolvable, so not trying would be foolish.
After briefly informing Untinia and Anelis of the situation, I immediately headed to the surface.
“First, the castle wall.”
I connected the tower, precisely Ori’s domain, the Ghost Tower.
Ori’s domain would expand, and I could form an influence over the “castle wall” while gaining multiple advantages.
The dragon’s words echoed in my mind.
-“A building shouldn’t exist separately. Connect them all. Don’t focus on one thing at a time. Think of the overall harmony and consider what will be added later. The best approach is to design everything according to the goal from the start and complete it at once.”
-“You don’t need many materials. You have magic, don’t you?”
-“Having many high-quality materials isn’t bad. But that’s all. Why do you think that’s magic? Why is it called ‘ash-colored architecture’?”
-“A necromancer can’t fully exert their power without a corpse or sacrificial victim. But that doesn’t mean they’re not a mage. You have too many prejudices.”
-“It’s okay if it’s lacking. Once it’s complete, you can add the lacking materials later.”
-“Even if it’s of high quality, there are unnecessary examples.”
-“In the distant past, a city created by fantasy magic existed. But that was an illusion that wasn’t an illusion.”
-“I’m not saying you should reach that point. It’s not your goal, and it’s an extreme example, that’s all.”
-“You can use your own method.”
I raised Eloset’s staff high.
Infinite magic poured out of my body, which had become a vessel with the crest on my chest and the dragon heart fragments.
The magic poured into the dragon heart fragments, solidifying into a core, and seven circles strongly rotated, amplifying the magic.
Eloset’s staff resonated with it, and the core, circles, and staff began to harmonize.
There were still no incantations or spells.
I never used those from the start.
My will determined the arrangement of the magic, and an enormous-scale magic was quickly completed.
[Transformation, Silent Castle Wall]
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Kukuku.
The amount of magic that spread around the oasis was incomparable to the 6-class era.
The overwhelming flow of magic was even felt underground, and Untinia and Anelis rushed out, while Ori stood beside me.
Even the Specters, Ori’s subordinates, who usually didn’t appear, showed up, and it was undeniable that the amount of magic I was handling had surpassed common sense.
“It’s an amazing feeling.”
Even in the 6-class era, it was a fact that I handled an amount of magic that other mages of the same rank struggled with.
Even if converted to mana or magical power, this fact didn’t change.
However, that level was incomparable to the current one.
It was at least five times more, and I was directly controlling such an enormous amount of magic, which left me in awe.
“It’s this easy.”
It felt like magic had become an extension of my body.
It was a strange sense of pleasure.
The overwhelming yet controlled magic poured out, moving towards the walls I had built beforehand.
The walls that had blocked the recent monsters, which had been made of bones, began to crumble away.
However, the walls seemed to be replaced by magic, as if they were being dyed black.
It was as if the bones were being replaced by magic, but that was not all.
– Huh?
Orie made a strange sound and trembled.
It seemed that Orie had noticed the anomaly, as if they had received a warning from their own domain.
“Don’t refuse. This won’t harm you.”
– Yes, yes…
Orie looked puzzled, but I ignored it and continued working.
The melted bones extended underground, and the walls on the surface became a dark, magic-made wall.
The extended bones destroyed and absorbed other buildings in the area.
I didn’t care about losing the buildings I had made.
Anyway, nothing caught my attention now.
So, I had to fix everything, and there was no time to waste. That’s why I decided to demolish everything and rebuild it all at once.
As a result, all the buildings in the area were destroyed and absorbed into the wall.
The influence of the castle walls expanded greatly, and only this wall and the Tower of Souls remained.
I connected the silent castle walls and the Tower of Souls.
As a result, Orie’s domain expanded dramatically, and simultaneously, its functions were shared.
– Wow….
Orie let out a pure cry of admiration.
– Such authority….
It seemed to feel the power obtained by connecting the Tower of Souls and the silent castle walls.
However, that was not all.
I used the silent castle walls to reform the Tower of Souls all at once.
I made the tower’s structure more transparent, similar to the silent castle walls.
I released the restricted power, which I had limited to create the laboratory.
The influence of the Tower of Souls expanded, and its height increased.
– Master, Master?
As a result, part of the underground laboratory was destroyed, but I didn’t mind. It’s okay. If needed, I can rebuild it later.
I didn’t need Muuto’s help like before.
It was different from the 6-class era.
After reforming the Tower of Souls, a gray mist began to spread around.
And new undead began to appear one by one. They were created using the remaining materials absorbed from the previous buildings.
“It’s complete.”
The shadowy hands.
They were specters without physical bodies, similar to the Wraith-type undead.
However, they were more difficult to create and use, as they required a specific environment to unleash their power.
But if the right environment was provided, their power was unmatched.
As I finished the ritual, I felt my body become empty.
However, that was only temporary, as the magic that was drawn out of the seal began to rapidly fill my body.
It didn’t take long to feel the sense of fullness.
“Ah… isn’t this almost infinite?”
If I recover my magic this quickly, my body will accumulate fatigue.
If I repeat this process excessively, my lifespan might be shortened.
“But that’s unlikely to happen.”
Even if it does, I can recover later, so it’s not a big problem.
It’s a fact that I can use almost infinite magic if I adjust it properly, and I need to find a speed that won’t burden my body later.
“-Master, this is… this is really…”
Because it’s my own domain.
I immediately grasped the new functions of my tower and the silent walls connected to it, and I couldn’t help but be amazed.
The melted bones would become a stake that pierces those who are not allowed to enter, hidden underground, and the walls made of magic would have shadowy hands hiding within them.
The gray mist would become a hiding place for specters and simultaneously serve as a veil to conceal this place.
“And Oriene will control all of this.”
The formless tower and walls could partially transform their appearance and blend into the mist, strengthening the undead in the domain.
In urgent situations, I could even reduce the tower and walls to magic and restore them, making them more useful than existing structures.
“-I think I can protect this place by myself. Is this really a domain?”
“Right now, the shadow hands and specters are the main forces, but later, I’ll include skeletons and other common undead in my domain as well.”
In fact, I could have absorbed the existing undead into the silent walls, but I wanted to expand the influence of the walls, and as a result, all the existing undead became materials for the walls.
The shadow hands are actually just things made from the leftovers.
To be exact, they were made from materials that couldn’t be used to expand the influence of the walls, and although I made them from leftovers, their danger and usefulness surpass the norm.
Oriene will be satisfied as well.
“-Then, what about my authority?”
“It will increase significantly.”
And that’s how much more comfortable I’ll become.
There’s no need for me to directly manage a domain of this size.
The Dragon’s Necropolis is practically mine, and so is Oriene’s tower.
Moreover, since I’m creating it myself, it’s even more so.
“As long as I can use it when I need to, that’s enough.”
“-You trust me that much?”
“That’s only natural. If I don’t trust my own subordinates, who can I trust?”
“Clearly, 6th class and 7th class are vastly different.”
I just recreated a single magic and surpassed the walls, achieving this result.
I felt it when I surpassed the walls, but wizards and magic users are clearly different beings.
At the same time, I realized that I’m a rather special magic user.
An ordinary magic user wouldn’t be able to create or control this amount of magic.
“As I said, I’ll leave this place to you.”
“-Yes. Don’t worry. Unauthorized beings won’t be able to take a single step into Master’s domain.”
Untinia and Anelis, who had been transformed by the magic that had changed the surroundings, were also told to come back soon.
When I said I would use such magic and move without resting, Untinia seemed to have given up understanding, shaking her head, and Anelis bowed her head, saying she would adapt.
I sensed the location of my undead through the foggy castle walls.
Fortunately, it wasn’t that far, and I rode my skeletal horse, dashing through the land.
During the move, I encountered a group of monsters, but it wasn’t a large scale, so there was no difficulty in dealing with them.
I cast a wide-range curse and took down one monster with a dark ball, effectively ending the battle.
The moment the monster became an undead and rose, it received my support and became extremely powerful, sweeping away the remaining monsters.
That’s how I killed the monsters and turned them into undead, and when the number of undead surpassed that of the monsters, it was all over.
That’s also why necromancers are feared.
“Well, even if I had strengthened my skeletal horse, I would have crushed them all anyway.”
As I approached, my companions, who had sensed my presence, began to move towards me.
As directly connected undead, they could roughly sense each other’s locations, just like I could.
“Look, the master is here!”
“Indeed, thank you.”
“It’s only natural!”
Golrun, who seemed to be showing off, and Kaila, who praised him.
Originally, Kaila would have done what I was doing.
“But, master, you’ve become stronger. I thought it felt strange, but now I can see it for myself.”
The undead directly connected to me would have felt it too.
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And it seemed Kaila was the same.
“Master, could it be…?”
“I’ve surpassed the wall. I’m now a 7th-class necromancer.”
“Really?”
Artina intervened, and Valtor congratulated me.
“Is this real? Teacher, didn’t you say I had talent? I was just an ordinary person, wasn’t I?”
“I’ve said it many times, but you do have talent. It’s just that you’re not an ordinary person, master.”
Kaila shook her head, refuting Artina’s misunderstanding.